Sarah Palin for the Senate? Tea Party says: Run, Sarah, Run
Washington Times
WASHINGTON, May 23, 2013 — The Tea Party wants former Alaska governor Sarah Palin to join their favorites in the Senate, Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.). They say she can win and they have a poll to prove it. Yikes, is America ready for a ...
Tea Party groups eager, GOP unsure on possible Sarah Palin Senate bidThe Hill

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UK 'Tea Party' surges, pressuring Tories and Cameron
MinnPost.com
They're an upstart political movement intent on “taking back” the country from an out-of-touch political elite accused of ignoring opposition to immigration and threats to what they consider the nation's Christian heritage. The insurgents, many of them ...

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Tea Party Demonstrations And Homeland Security Another Non-event
Forbes
WEST PALM BEACH, FL - MAY 21: Kathy Schlechting (C) holds a flag during aTea Party Internal Revenue Service (IRS) demonstration on May 21, 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Tea Party activists organized the protest against the Internal Revenue ...

Tea Party groups eager, GOP unsure on possible Sarah Palin Senate bid
The Hill
Tea Party activists from around the country are eager to see Sarah Palin run for the Senate, but Republican senators themselves aren't rushing to recruit her. A recent poll shows Palin would lead the Republican field if she ran for Senate in Alaska ...

New York Times
Tea party storm largely contained within IRS but investigations just getting ...
Washington Post
The inspector general's report, which was released last week, said IRS agents in a Cincinnati office targeted tea party and other conservative groups for additional scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. They started targeting these groups ...
Factbox: Who knew what when in the IRS 'Tea Party' scandalReuters
For Tea Party Groups, Shades of 2010New York Times
Politico Reporter: IRS Targeting of Tea Party 'Easily Influenced' 2012 ElectionNewsBusters (blog)
ABC News -Kansas City Star
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Chris Matthews Slams IRS For Tea Party 'Profiling': Like TSA Targeting Arabs
Mediaite
Chris Matthews continues to be one of the biggest liberal critics of the IRS tea party targeting scandal that culminated in two big testimonies on Capitol Hill today. During an interview with former IRS director Marcus Owens, Matthews likened singling ...

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NewsBusters (blog)
Politico Reporter: IRS Targeting of Tea Party 'Easily Influenced' 2012 Election
NewsBusters (blog)
On Bill Press's radio show yesterday, a reporter with left-leaning Politico told Press that the Internal Revenue Service dragging its feet on applications for tax-exempt status from tea party groups probably affected the outcome of last year's election ...
For Tea Party Groups, Shades of 2010New York Times
Former US attorney Todd Graves files tea party lawsuit against the IRSKansas City Star
Protesters Rally Over IRS' Tea Party ScrutinyABC News
Washington Examiner -Reuters
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ABC News
Todd Graves files tea party lawsuit against the IRS
Kansas City Star
May 22. By STEVE KRASKE. The Kansas City Star. Kansas City lawyer Todd Graves, the former U.S. attorney for western Missouri, has filed suit in Cincinnati against the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of a California tea party group. Order Reprints ...
Protesters Rally Over IRS' Tea Party ScrutinyABC News
For Tea Party Groups, Shades of 2010New York Times
Video: Tea Party Patriots protest outside IRSWashington Examiner
Reuters -NewsBusters (blog)
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De Smog Blog (blog)
IRS Sleuths Were on the Right Track: Big Tobacco Created Tea Party in 1994
De Smog Blog (blog)
This is a guest post by Pam Martens, cross-posted with permission from Wall Street On Parade. On February 25, 2013, James Hepburn, writing at Daily Kos, made the emphatic assertion in a headline that “Big Tobacco Had Nothing to Do With Tea Party ...

New York Times
Factbox: Who knew what when in the IRS 'Tea Party' scandal
Reuters
Chairman Charles Boustany questions then-IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman about reports that the IRS has been targeting Tea Party groups. Shulman testifies that "what has been happening has been the normal back-and-forth that happens with the ...
For Tea Party Groups, Shades of 2010New York Times
Politico Reporter: IRS Targeting of Tea Party 'Easily Influenced' 2012 ElectionNewsBusters (blog)
Former US attorney Todd Graves files tea party lawsuit against the IRSKansas City Star
ABC News -Washington Examiner
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Tea Party-backed resolution moved to Louisiana Senate floor by panel
NOLA.com
The public packed the state Capitol on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 for debate on a resolution to block implementation of the Common Core education standards. The Louisiana Tea Party backed the resolution while teachers and education officials opposed it.

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U.S. News & World Report (blog)
Has the GOP Learned Nothing?
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
However, one look at the gubernatorial ticket in Virginia shows that the tea party's dream is alive and kicking. Not only has the party nominated Ken Cuccinelli for governor – who believes that the entire social safety net is "despicable, dishonest ...
Tea Party's Black Ally: GOP's Lt. Gov. ChoiceThenewjournalandguide
Virginia Republicans nominate Tea Party favorite for lieutenant governorThe Guardian
New Virginia GOP gov. nominee Cuccinelli is Tea Party favoriteFox News
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Christian Science Monitor
UK 'Tea Party' surges, pressuring Tories and Cameron
Christian Science Monitor
It's a nightmare scenario for senior Conservative Party strategists seeking centrist voters, and one which might draw sympathy from Republication counterparts who have long looked over their shoulders at the Tea Party. For their part, UKIP activists ...

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Tea Party Is Partying and Martyring Like It's 2009
Truth-Out
A recent headline at the reliably conservative web site WND.com may say it all: "IRS Targeting Brings Tea Party Back From Dead." After a few years in the political wilderness, thanks to the IRS scandal, the Tea Party is once again in the national ...

Is This the IRS Boss Who Oversaw the Targeting of Tea Party Groups?
TheBlaze.com
But Fox Cincinnati affiliate WXIX-TV has identified six local employees that sent probing letters to Tea Party groups: Mitchel Steele, Carly Young, Joseph Herr, Stephen Seok, Liz Hofacre and a woman known only as Ms. Richards. According to WXIX, all of ...

Tea Party Congressman Chews Out IRS Official Who Plead Fifth [VIDEO]
Business Insider
Lois Lerner, the official who oversaw the exempted organizations department of the IRS, was brought in front of Congress today in order to testify about her group's actions in unduly scrutinizing Tea Party-affiliated 501(c)4 groups. Lerner invoked her ...

IRS official refuses to testify in Tea Party probe
USA TODAY
Citing her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, Lois Lerner would not answer questions about how the IRS developed the "be on the lookout" list for Tea Party groups, what she did when she discovered it, and why she failed to tell Congress ...

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U.S. News & World Report (blog)
After the Moore Tornado, Put Politics Aside
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
But what also disturbed me (and I know I am not alone in this) was that, at the same time, the tea party scheduled rallies across the nation at Internal Revenue Service offices to protest the IRS targeting conservative groups seeking tax exempt status ...
Oklahoma tornado; Tea Party targeting by IRS: National/international newsOregonLive.com

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ABC News
Protesters Rally Over IRS' Tea Party Scrutiny
ABC News
Tea party activists waving flags and signs, singing patriotic songs and chanting anti-IRS slogans held rallies outside federal buildings across the country to protest the agency's extra scrutiny of conservative groups. A crowd Tuesday packed the ...
For Tea Party Groups, Shades of 2010New York Times
Ex-Cincy IRS official doubts agency's explanation for Tea Party scandalNBCNews.com
California Tea Party group files lawsuit against the IRSFox News
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The tea party and the politics of paranoia
Phys.Org
But new research by University of Washington political scientist Christopher Parker argues that the tea party ideology owes more to the paranoid politics associated with the John Birch Society—and even the infamous Ku Klux Klan—than to traditional ...

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